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Vennari, Miraculous Medal & Ecological Fraud
Jesuit Working with Pope St. Pius X
I was wondering if you could tell me the name of the Jesuit who took care of Pope St. Pius X when he was dying? He was mentioned here,
I'm asking because in the book about Saint Pius X by Yves Chiron, it states, "Brother Faustino Giulini of the Order of St. John of God, who was the Pope's nurse, drew up a detailed account of the Pope's last hours."
Thank you for your assistance.
God bless,
M.B.
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TIA responds:
Hello M.B.,
Unfortunately we don’t know his name. It should be a German name, though.
Cordially,
TIA correspondence desk
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Original Miraculous Medal
Thanks for all the excellent information posted on TIA, concerning an Event For The Ages. If the Children of the World were not so vincibly (yes, vincibly) ignorant, the attendance would not be 90 people, but it would have been 9,000 or 9,000,000. As Thoreau said: "Read not the Times, but the Eternities".
I pray that you are well and resting just a bit. Just thinking about your work exhausts me.
I have attached a picture of the Original ("first strike") of the Miraculous Medal, 1830.
In Maria,
J.S.
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Fraud in the Global Warming Agenda
I am forwarding to you this interesting address of Dr. Soon, reproduced below, on the lack of scientific background for the delirious global warming or climate change agenda.
Gary Morella
Joel B. Pollak
Los Angeles – 9 Feb 2017 – Dr. Wie-Hock “Willie” Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics addressed a gathering of the American Freedom Alliance on Thursday night at the Luxe Hotel, describing the current state of debate about climate change as “spitting science in the face” and “treating science like a piece of rubbish.”
Mixing humor and science, he entertained the gathering as he made the case for skepticism about climate change.
He began by mocking the degree to which carbon dioxide was treated like a toxic gas by proponents of radical policies on climate change. “Next it will be oxygen, it will be anything that you want on the chemical table,” he joked.
“The Sun is a primary driver of climate change – and has a far greater impact than changes in CO2,” he said, in a slide presented to the packed audience of about 100 conservatives.
Another slide added: “Climate science is dangerously corrupted and co-opted by multiple anti-science forces and players.”
To the amusement of the audience, Dr. Soon played a clip of Al Sharpton mocking him on MSNBC, pointing to research funding he had received from fossil fuel companies. “It is really, truly, a badge of honor, Rev. Al Sharpton, to be accused by you of a conflict of interest,” he said.
Dr. Soon called much of the reporting about his work in the mainstream media “fake news.” And he mocked the fads and fashions that have sprung up around climate change.
For example, he said, the ”locavore” movement, which stressed eating locally-produced food to save energy, actually increased greenhouse gases, because of the energy efficiencies achieved by larger and more established farms that benefited from economies of scale.
He also mocked California politicians for their statements on science – especially Governor Jerry Brown and former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 1977, he pointed out, Gov. Brown had warned of a drought of “immeasurable magnitude” – a meaningless phrase, in scientific terms.
The movement toward renewable energy sources, he said, was not a sign of progress, but regression toward the lower energy densities of the pre-industrial age. He also likened belief in carbon “pollution” to the superstitious beliefs of primitive civilizations, illustrating his point with a 1933 newspaper article describing a drought in Syria that was blamed by locals on yo-yo toys.
He then launched into his data-heady scientific presentation in earnest. For all the focus on carbon dioxide, the most important greenhouse gas in the climate system was water vapor, he said. And carbon dioxide, he noted, was not a “pollutant,” as the term was conventionally used.
While it was true that the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide had been increasing, he said, and had passed 400 parts per million, the dominant effect of water vapor had helped flatten the greenhouse effect, such that the rise of global surface temperatures had slowed significantly.
He said that some climate scientists manipulated graphs to make climate change seem more severe than it was – for example, by representing temperature anomalies rather than absolute temperatures.
His latest work, he said, was in understanding how temperature data sets were constructed. He and his colleagues were examining data gathered in rural areas, to remove the distortion of measurements in urban areas. They found that there was, in fact, some surface temperature warming, albeit less severe than conventional data sets showed. But the effect, he said, was more likely the result of fluctuations in energy output from the sun, which in turn affected water vapor.
The major effect of cutting carbon dioxide emissions to zero, he said, would be “to kill and hurt poor people and greatly harm animals and the environment.”
In the past, Dr. Soon noted, the left had attacked his research because he had taken funding from fossil fuel companies. He cited the New York Times as one of his chief antagonists, after it ran a disparaging profile of him in 2015.
As a result, he said, he had not accepted any funding for his latest research on the composition and manipulation of climate data sets.
Original here.
Posted February 23, 2017
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Our colleague John Vennari, editor of Catholic Family News, is on his deathbed. He asks prayers for a good death and “for his Purgatory” as he puts it in a note. He also says he does not know whether he will be able to live until Friday, his birthday. With a cancer in advanced stage added to pneumonia and other health complications the doctors predict he is very close to his end.
We recommend his agony to the prayers of our readers and we turn our eyes to Our Lady Help of Christians asking her to look at him mercifully accentuating the many good things he did for her cause and to disregard possible mistakes and confusions inspired by deceitful persons.
Atila S. Guimarães, editor